Swipe is a fintech SAAS startup in India. It's a simple Invoicing, Payments & GST software boasting users among 5L+ SMEs, and has reached 5000+ cities withcustomers across India. It comes with high-priority customer support in all regional languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, etc. Swipe helps users to create invoices, purchases, and quotations, and share them directly with customers/ vendors via WhatsApp, SMS & Email. Managing billing,…
$23
per year per user
Zoho Books
Score8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Books is an accounting solution that is designed to help small businesses manage their finances. This solution includes dashboards and a wide variety of reports. Business users can automate tasks and set up custom workflows.
Zoho offers a 14 day free trial.
$20
per month
Pricing
Swipe
Zoho Books
Editions & Modules
PRO plan
$33
per year per user
JET plan
$43
per year per user
RISE Plan
$58
per year per user
RISE + e-Invoice
$88
per year per user
Free
$0
For businesses with turnover <50K USD per annum
Standard
$20
per month per org
Professional
$50
per month per org
Premium
$70
per month per org
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Swipe
Zoho Books
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Swipe Pro Plan includes,
1. 1 Business Account + 1 User
2. Branding No Swipe logo on Bills
3. 14+ Invoice templates
4. Collect Online Payments
5. GSTR-1, 40+ Reports & Insights
6. Variants
7. Inventory Timeline
8. Add custom fields/ columns & charges
9. Bulk uploads of customers, vendors & products.
10. Add header/ footer/ watermark of your choice
11. Convert documents
12. Support
13. iOS App access
Jet plan includes,
1. 1 Business Account + 2 users
2. E-way Bills
3. Bulk downloads
4. Multiple Price Lists
5. User Activity
6. Bulk Actions
RISE plan includes,
1. Everything in JET +
2. Subscription/ Recurring
3. POS (Point Of Sale)
4. Batch & Expiry
5. Serial Number & IMEI
6. Manufacturing/ Grouping
7. Additional CESS
8. Bank ReconciliationBeta
9. Free Quantity on Sales
10. Sales Order
11. Party Grouping
RISE + E-invoice,
1. Everything in RISE +
2. E-invoice
BIZ Plan
+ Multiple Businesses/ Branches
+ Online Store E-commerce
+ Multiple Users
+ Custom Column Linking
+ Import/ Export/ Multi-currency/ SEZ
+ Multiple Warehouses
+ GST Filings
+ Bulk invoicing via Excel
+ Digital Signature (with .PFX file)
+ Integrations
- Tally
- Shopify
- Shiprocket
- API
- Custom E-mail
Zoho Books is available for both monthly and yearly plans. Users who sign up for the annual plan get a discount.
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We still use Tally for wider accounting. We tried Zoho and Quickbooks in the past. They are way bigger in terms of features but the UI is complicated and not user-friendly. The learning curve is high for any new comer.
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If using other cloud applications and you wish to create Zoho Books transactions via APIs, Zoho Books is great. The overall UI and flow of the application are great. If you need a detailed job cost accounting solution and robust reporting there is some room for improvement here.
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Zoho Books invoicing and receipting features are second to none. We find it easy to quickly invoice clients and add items to their bills and also for our own receipting internally.
The accounting features are great for our accounting team to be able to see where we are financially and how the business is doing.
The ability to add contacts and run a mini CRM channel with clients within Zoho is invaluable. Since we use this in conjunction with our other CRM channels, it helps to have a centralized place to follow up and see through a sales funnel.
Zoho Books allows us to take payments from clients around the globe a feature we didn't have when we used another accounting system.
The pricing for Zoho Books is fairly reasonable for an SME organization which is a great for us as it pays itself back many times over every month.
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Zoho Books is only available in Texas and California. There is no integration allowed for paying employee expenses. The absolute worst aspect is the fact that if you make even the slightest error in data input there is no backing up. You cannot undo an error.
The system does not allow change once implemented, so you must get every one of your beginning balances perfect. The practice of Journal Entries is cumbersome. When reconciling, Zoho Books has adopted a number of required steps that significantly overcomplicate reconciliation using practices that are not consistent with general accounting principles in the US.
On the customer side, you must look in two places to see the beginning balance and the current receivables that might exist for current invoicing.
The way the system works, you must avoid having much trust with the balances depicted. So far, it appears that Zoho Books uses what we called in school "that new math."
It would be terrifying to rely on this bookkeeping system to support an IRS Audit. The system violates too many fundamental accounting principles.
The software is used by so few people that there is concern that we might never find a skilled bookkeeper.
Customization is the biggest struggle for us and most of the time we need to involve a tech person. The chat support is a great feature and very helpful. It would be great to be able to customize and create invoices and correspondence (templates) such are reminders in multiple languages within one organization. The currency (USD) would be the same. We have clients in different countries that don't speak English but pay in USD.
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The support team feels very disjointed. We have filtered through a number of "lead" contacts and are frequently spammed by other Zoho members. Once getting an appropriate support contact on the phone - the team is very helpful, it just takes a lot of hoop jumping to get there. We actually unsubscribed from their support package as we were not getting the value we were looking for.
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We still use Tally for wider accounting. We tried Zoho and Quickbooks in the past. They are way bigger in terms of features but the UI is complicated and not user-friendly. The learning curve is high for any new comer.
We had a lot of problems with Exact Online, support-wise and price-wise. So Zoho Books wins on every point there. While Exact offers way more options, it tends to be really slow... and complex. Again Zoho Books wins. If you want an easy-to-use tool and not pay a lot of money, or if you are a small administration office with a few clients, this tool will be perfect for you.
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Integration: Zoho Books offers out of the box integrations to extend the functionality and connect with the applications you love like MailChimp, Microsoft Outlook, PandaDoc, and Quickbooks, etc.
Flexibility makes Zoho Books great!
Since I can use forecast reports, I can create customizable sales forecast data from the dashboard to accurately measure revenue forecasts and establish sales quotas.
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